THE EXTRAGALACTIC BACKGROUND LIGHT, THE HUBBLE CONSTANT, AND ANOMALIES: CONCLUSIONS FROM 20 YEARS OF TeV GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS

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作者
Biteau, J. [1 ]
Williams, D. A.
机构
[1] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
astroparticle physics; cosmology: observations; diffuse radiation; galaxies: active; gamma rays: galaxies; PEAKED BL-LACERTAE; MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS; LONG-TERM; MU-M; GALAXY COUNTS; PKS; 2155-304; 1ES 1959+650; MRK; 421; VERITAS OBSERVATIONS; ULTRAVIOLET-SPECTRA;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/60
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Ground-based observatories have been collecting 0.2-20 TeV gamma-rays from blazars for about twenty years. These gamma-rays can experience absorption along the line of sight due to interactions with the extragalactic background light (EBL). In this paper, we show that the gamma-ray optical depth can be reduced to the convolution product of an EBL kernel with the EBL intensity, assuming a particular form for the EBL evolution. We extract the absorption signal from the most extensive set of TeV spectra from blazars collected so far and unveil a broadband EBL spectrum from mid-ultraviolet to far-infrared. This spectrum is in good agreement with the accumulated emission of galaxies, constraining unresolved populations of sources. We propose a data-driven estimate of the Hubble constant based on the comparison of local and gamma-ray measurements of the EBL. After setting stringent upper-limits on the redshift of four TeV blazars, we investigate the 106 gamma-ray spectra in our sample and find no significant evidence for anomalies. The intrinsic TeV spectra are not harder than their GeV counterpart, and no spectral upturn is visible at the highest optical depths. Finally, we investigate a modification of the pair-creation threshold due to Lorentz invariance violation. A mild excess prevents us from ruling out an effect at the Planck energy, and we constrain for the first time the energy scale of the modification to values larger than 60% of the Planck energy.
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